Research

In our film I will be looking to evoke the feeling of the Crime Thriller genre. As a result I have looked for film clips on the internet which I will be hoping will help with the planning of the piece.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zPyEVeGb80

The ending of Dirty Harry (Siegel, 1971). This clip is the influence on our opening shot. We will however be using a different camera angle instead of the high-angle shot used here.



This shot from Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990) has influenced the shot in the Police office. This was due to our attempts to keep the piece moving and have a good balance between stationary and travelling shots. As a direct result of Scorese's use of movement he will be one of the directors I will aim to evoke.



Here we see Christopher Nolan's Memento (2000). His interesting use of narrative structure has influenced our choice of starting at the end, and as the use of reverse play in the opening of the film we have chosen to edit our opening scenes brightness and slow the play down, creating a difference between this and the rest of our film. His use of natural light in this scene has also influenced us, as we know it will be hard to alter lighting due to limited resources, but also because it adds a certain amount of realism to the film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7pgXS7bUBk
We will also be using the camera technique used in French New Wave films, and as so her is a compilation of shots from Godard's 1960 film A bout de souffle.